Elaine Robinson

Households living below a Minimum Income Standard: 2008–2024 Since 2013, this report has tracked the number of people in the UK living below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS), a public-defined benchmark for a dignified minimum standard of living. It examines tr...

Our research for @jrf-uk.bsky.social is out today.
Most children in the UK are now growing up without a socially acceptable standard of living.
But the challenge extends beyond this. Over two-thirds of the households living on inadequate incomes have someone in work.
www.jrf.org.uk/households-l...

There are some tariffs with no standing charge, but I believe they are mainly for prepayment meters.
In this example, I believe there was an assumption of PV, battery storage and ASHP.

Guy Martin’s House Without Bills Guy explores how to make homes cheaper to heat. Can he get rid of energy bills altogether?

How realistic is it to have a house without energy bills?
Guy Martin gives a beginners' guide to Passivhaus.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

Urgent reforms needed to protect terminally ill people from fuel poverty Energy tariff reform, income support and climate-sensitive policies must be introduced urgently to protect terminally ill people from the growing risk of fuel poverty, according to Dr Elaine Robinson.

My article for Nature Energy was published today.
You can read an overview of it here:
www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...

A decade of falling incomes? JRF's pre-budget assessment of living standards Average incomes are expected to fall by £550 over this parliament, meaning the Government risks having the worst living standards performance of any parliament on record.

Ahead of the budget, here's JRF's assessment
www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...

Wrong to Sell: How Right To Buy Gave Away Billions in Public Wealth Calculating the present market value of housing transferred through the Right To Buy discount.

Wrong to Sell: How Right To Buy Gave Away Billions in Public Wealth: www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Fuel Poverty and End of Life Care: New Research Dr Elaine Robinson from the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Jamie Thunder, Senior Policy Manager for Financial Security, Marie Curie Sarah Owens, Senior Lecturer in Ad…

I'm presenting new research on fuel poverty at the end of life at the FPRN webinar on Thursday 31st July 2025.
Register free to join
www.fuelpovertyresearch.net/events/event...